The Index Podcast
by Index Studios
The Index podcast goes beyond the code to get at the real stories behind some of today's most interesting emerging tech companies, the founders, the strategy, the stuff that actually happens behind the scenes. Every week, host Alex Kehaya sits down with entrepreneurs, builders, and investors who are shaping where the internet is headed. Alex is CEO of ABK Labs and Corbits, a platform that helps companies put AI agents into production without losing sleep over it. Corbits handles the hard parts: knowing who or what is actually acting, keeping permissions locked down, managing credentials, and keeping a clear record of what happened. Run it on Corbits' cloud or your own, with whatever model you want. We've got some news: two new co-hosts are joining the show! First up, Anne Ahola Ward from CircleClick. CNN dubbed her "The Mother of Startups," and it's a title she's earned. Anne is a technical SEO with a reputation for growing startups
Episodes
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Greg Lipschitz: The AI That Sees PTSD Where MRIs Can't (Firefly Neuroscience)
Firefly Neuroscience is building an AI system that can read the human brain, and catch things MRIs and CT scans miss entirely. In this episode of The Index Podcast, CEO Greg Lipschitz and President Dave DeCaprio break down Evoke, their FDA-cleared EEG platform built on the world's largest...
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Ken Berenger: Why Water Infrastructure Is Moving On-Chain
Water infrastructure is quietly becoming one of the most interesting new real world asset classes in finance. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Ken Berenger, CEO of Water On Demand and Gridwater, breaks down how he built a real world asset platform that turns restaurant grease traps into a...
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He Built an AI That Beats Insurance Companies at Their Own Game | Dean Margolis x Red Sky Health
Health insurers use AI to deny thousands of claims a minute. Dean Margolis built the AI that fights back, and it doesn't get paid unless the hospital does. Inside this episode: a serial founder with 3 exits and an IPO, a product literally named after "denial," and a business model Gartner is...
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Eddie Zhang (Arcus) on Tokenizing Wall Street: Zero-Fee Stocks, Robinhood Chain & 3x Leveraged ETFs
Arcus is bringing Wall Street on-chain. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Eddie Zhang, Founder & CEO of Arcus, the decentralized exchange built by dYdX in partnership with Robinhood, breaks down how tokenized US stocks and perpetuals are going 24/7 on Robinhood Chain. This is what it looks…
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Sebastian Rodriguez (Billions Network) on AI Deepfakes, 2.5M Humans & Agents That Pay for Pizza
AI deepfakes are already impersonating real people, including the host of this very podcast. In this episode, Sebastian Rodriguez, Chief Product Officer at Billions Network, breaks down how Billions is building the identity layer that tells humans, AI agents, and bots apart before the internet...
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🎙️ Avi Patel (Kled AI) & Andrea Muttoni (The DATA Foundation): Who Actually OWNS Your Data in the AI Age?
The AI labs are IPO-ing this year and they're all asking the same question behind closed doors: "Where did this training data actually come from, and can you prove it?" Avi Patel (Founder & CEO, Kled AI) and Andrea Muttoni (CEO, The DATA Foundation, formerly Story Protocol) built the receipts…
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Tim Lee (Titan Exchange) on Solana's Meta-DEX Wars, Zero-Fee Swaps & Beating Binance VIP9
Everyone talks about Jupiter, but what happens when the aggregators start competing with each other? In this episode, Tim Lee, CMO of Titan Exchange, breaks down how Titan built Solana's first meta-DEX aggregator, why its on-chain router DART is putting up numbers that beat Binance's top VIP…
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How to Earn Yield 24/7 on Solana: Brad "Bradydonut" (HawkFi) on Agentic Liquidity Providing
Solana just turned every asset into something tradable. Now HawkFi is turning every tradable asset into yield, and it's doing it with AI agents that work while you sleep. In this episode of The Index Podcast, host Steve sits down with Brad ("Bradydonut"), Co-Founder of HawkFi, the agent terminal...
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🚀 Solana's Hedge Fund Secret: Derek Lee (Neutral Trade) on Bringing Institutional Quant Strategies to Everyday Wallets
Ever wondered how a $100 deposit on Solana can plug you into the same market neutral strategies that Wall Street quants use to print steady returns? Derek Lee, Co-Founder & CEO of Neutral Trade, sits down with us to break down how his team went from a Colosseum hackathon to managing capital…
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Ethan Buchman (Cosmos Co-Founder) on Cycles: The Clearing Protocol Reinventing How the World Settles Debt | The Index Podcast
What if the biggest unlock in crypto isn't moving money faster — it's not having to move it at all? Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and founder of Cycles, sits down with Alex Kehaya to explain why 16th-century bankers may have understood finance better than we do…
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Matt Van Horn (Lyft) on AI Psychosis & Coding Agents That Never Sleep | The Index Podcast
He almost got scammed by a fake "producer" minutes before this interview even started. Then he told us why he wakes up at 5am hearing phantom AI music. Matt Van Horn, Lyft co-founder and now Founder & CEO of Lyft, has built an army of coding agents that ship dozens of open source PRs a day, and…
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The Stablecoin Router Everyone Will Use: Ryne Saxe (Eco) on Solana, Visa & the Future of Money
Stablecoins on Solana just hit $15B, and Eco Co-Founder & CEO Ryne Saxe says that number is going to look laughably small in five years. On this episode of The Index Podcast, Ryne breaks down why Solana pulled ahead in the stablecoin race, why Visa and Mastercard are quietly rebuilding their…
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He Got Into Crypto to Save his Cat. Now He's Building Solana's Biggest Trading Card Game. | Natsuki x Rosentica
He bought her sick cat's medicine with USDT because no bank or pharmacy would touch it. That same "get it done, on-chain" energy is now powering Rosentica, an original multimedia IP turning old, retired trading cards into a full battle economy on Solana. In this episode, Natsuki, Founder &...
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Bernardo Brites (Trace Finance) on Building the $10B Stablecoin Rails Connecting Brazil to the World
Brazil banned crypto players from moving big money, so this founder got a bank license instead. Now Trace Finance processes over $10B in cross-border volume and powers the top 4 global payment companies in Latin America. On this episode of The Index Podcast, Bernardo Brites, Co-Founder & CEO of...
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Bootstrapped to 320K Users, ZERO Funding: Agnese Jaunošāne (COO & Co-Founder, Ajelix) on Open-Source AI's Power Move
She turned "everyone hates spreadsheets" into a 320,000-user, 150-country AI company, without taking a single dollar of outside funding. Agnese Jaunošāne, COO & Co-Founder of Ajelix, sits down to break down why she and her co-founder said no to VC money, bet big on open-source AI, and are now...
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Tokenizing Silver on Solana: Mark Tormey (Founder, Dominion) on Bringing Real World Silver On-Chain
Silver is the one commodity everyone forgot to tokenize. Mark Tormey, founder of Dominion, is fixing that: real, vaulted, audited silver, one token per ounce, live on Solana and built to plug straight into DeFi. This episode is a masterclass in what it actually takes to bring a physical asset...
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Solana's Prediction Market Play: Nass Diba (Founder & CEO, Worm) on Building the Future of Media On-Chain
Prediction markets called the 2024 election before the media did. Now Nass Diba, ex-CPO of Rarible and alum of Aave and Dharma, is betting that permissionless, AI-powered prediction markets on Solana are the next big media format. On this episode of The Index Podcast, we get into why Worm just...
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🚀 Sports Cards Meet Solana: Hadi (Founder of Gacha Sports) on Turning a $15B Collectibles Market On-Chain
Sports cards just found their liquidity engine and it's built on Solana. This week on The Index, Alex sits down with Hadi, founder of Gacha Sports, the platform letting fans rip digital packs and pull real, graded sports cards live on-chain. From a childhood card-shop addiction to a fully...
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Brian Huang (Co-Founder and CEO, Glider) on Stocks On-Chain, Copyable Portfolios and AI Advisors
Most of the world cannot buy a single share of Nvidia. Brian Huang, co-founder and CEO of Glider, returns to The Index to explain how tokenized stocks change that, and why capital is quietly rotating out of crypto and into equities. Glider is a non-custodial platform for managing wealth on-chain....
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🔥 Solana Insider Turned Founder: How Shimon Newman Is Rethinking Private Banking with Moto
Ever tried explaining to your private banker why your money is spread across three countries, two exchanges, and a crypto wallet? Shimon Newman, former Director of Research at Squads and now Founder & CEO of Moto, is building the card that makes that whole headache disappear. This one's for...
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Tokenizing the $360B Domain Industry on Solana 🌐 w/ Inder Singh (VP Product/Tech, D3 / Doma Protocol)
Domains are the most entrenched, least liquid asset class on the internet, and it's about to change forever. Inder Singh, VP of Product & Tech at D3 (the team behind Doma Protocol), joins The Index Podcast to break down how a $360B+ industry still run like it's 1999 is finally getting an on-chain...
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Aptos CEO Avery Ching: Open Intelligence, Data Ownership & Why AI Needs Crypto
Alex Kehaya sits down with Avery Ching, co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs and former lead engineer on Meta's Libra project, for a wide-ranging conversation on what happens when AI absorbs all of our data, and who ends up owning the intelligence that comes out of it. From Shelby's plan to put your...
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The Family Office Model That Could Save Crypto Investors From Losing It All | Jake Claver
Most crypto investors are chasing a lottery ticket. Jake Claver is building the system that keeps you from losing it all when you finally win. Jake Claver is the CEO and Principal of Digital Ascension Group. a firm helping high-net-worth individuals and institutions navigate wealth, sovereignty,...
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Community Money Is The Future of Crypto — Ted Livingston (Flipcash) on Solana, Meme Coins & Reinventing Liquidity
What if every community, your baseball team, your college campus, your favorite creator's fanbase, had its own currency that worked like real money from day one? Ted Livingston, the founder who built Kik into one of the world's largest messaging apps and launched the first token on Solana, is…
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🎙️ The Global Economy on Chain — Xen Baynham-Herd (Base)
From trading desks at UBS to leading global growth at one of the fastest-growing blockchains in the world — Xen Baynham-Herd's journey through crypto is as wild as the industry itself. In this episode, Alex sits down with Xen, Head of Marketing & Global Growth at Base, to unpack what it really...
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🎙️ Solana's Liquidity Layer Goes Institutional: Michael Hwang (CEO, Orca) on the Future of DeFi | The Index Podcast
The man behind one of Solana's most foundational DeFi protocols finally sits down with us. Michael Hwang, CEO of Orca, breaks down how a protocol that's been quietly powering Solana's liquidity for 5+ years is now stepping into the spotlight — and building infrastructure for the next era of...
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The Trade Is the New Tweet — Jason Rodrigues of Cesto on Revolutionizing Investing on Solana
What if every hot take you had could instantly become a trade? Jason Rodrigues, Founder of Cesto, is building exactly that on Solana — and it might be the most exciting DeFi product you haven't heard of yet. Cesto lets anyone invest in curated baskets of assets built around ideas, narratives, and...
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Solana’s Next-Gen Order Book? | Dhrumil of Archer Exchange on Fully On-Chain Markets
What does it take to build a truly decentralized exchange that can compete with traditional financial markets? In this episode of The Index Podcast, Dhrumil, Co-Founder of Archer Exchange, joins us to discuss why Solana is uniquely positioned to power the next generation of on-chain trading and…
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🎙️ Solana, Whiskey RWAs & Tokenized Collectibles with Tzvi Wiesel, CEO of Baxus
What happens when you combine rare whiskey, real-world assets, and Solana? In this episode of The Index Podcast, Alex Kehaya sits down with Tzvi Wiesel, Founder & CEO of Baxus, to explore how one of the most unique RWA platforms in crypto is bringing rare spirits, collectibles, lending, and...
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Building Solana Apps with AI: Jordan O’Neill of Eitherway on No-Code Web3 Creation
What if you could turn an idea into a live Solana app without writing code? In this episode of The Index Podcast, host Alex Kehaya sits down with Jordan O’Neill, CMO and co-founder of Eitherway, to explore how AI agents are making Web3 app development faster, easier, and more accessible for...
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Solana’s Perps Renaissance with Hunter Simmons & Jordan Prince of Imperial Perps
What does it take to build the best perps trading experience on Solana? In this episode of The Index Podcast, Alex Kehaya sits down with Hunter Simmons, CTO & Co-Founder, and Jordan Prince, CEO & Co-Founder, of Imperial Perps to unpack why Solana perps are evolving fast, what traders actually…
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Solana’s Agentic Finance Future with Bunny of Clawpump
AI agents are coming on-chain — and Clawpump wants Solana to be their home base. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Nicky Scanella sits down with Bunny, Mauricio Trujillo Ramirez, co-founder of Clawpump and Tektonic, to unpack how autonomous AI agents could trade, earn, pay for compute, and...
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Solana’s New Fundraising Frontier with Proph3t of MetaDAO
What if markets — not committees — made the big decisions behind crypto fundraising? In this episode of The Index Podcast, Alex Kehaya sits down with Proph3t, co-founder of MetaDAO, to unpack how Solana-native fundraising is evolving, why token launches are being reimagined, and how decision...
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John Wilson & Amol Gharte (Solana Spaces) on Crypto Culture, Pop-Ups & the Future of Web3
Crypto adoption isn’t just about better tech… it’s about better culture. In this episode, John Wilson & Amol Gharte, cofounders of Solana Spaces, break down how real-world experiences are onboarding the next wave of Web3 users. From viral pop-ups to global community building, this is what happens...
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Build a Solana App With One Prompt? Amit Ishairzay & Bilal Shahid of Poof Are Making It Happen
What if you could launch a full Solana application just by describing your idea in plain English? Amit Ishairzay and Bilal Shahid, co-founders of Poof (poof.new), are building exactly that — and it's already live. From prediction markets to token escrows to DePIN apps for cleaning up dog poop…
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He Turned Childhood Pokémon Packs Into a $180M On-Chain Marketplace on Solana | Jake (Mr. Colada) | Phygitals
What if ripping open Pokémon packs as a kid was actually your billion-dollar origin story? Jake, Co-Founder of Phygitals, built a $180M on-chain trading card marketplace on Solana, bootstrapped, shot down by 7 VCs, and still winning. This one hits different. In this episode, we cover: 🃏 What...
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🔥 Building the Safest DeFi Protocol on Solana — Plish, Co-Founder & CEO of Hylo
Most DeFi protocols are one hack away from collapse. Plish is building Hylo differently — and in this episode, he breaks down exactly why. From winning the Colosseum Radar Hackathon to crossing $100M TVL, Hylo is rewriting the rules of decentralized stablecoins on Solana. No external…
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🔒 Privacy Is the Future of Solana — Kru Shah of Umbra Explains Why
What does it take to build the most trusted wallet in the Solana ecosystem and keep it that way? What happens when every trade you make on-chain is public — and your friends start copy-trading you without asking? That's what pushed Kru Shah to build Umbra, the first live app on Arcium's Mainnet...
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What if AI agents are the real reason blockchain was always going to matter? Yat Siu of Animoca Brands breaks it all down
Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu sits down with host Alex Kehaya to talk about digital ownership, the agentic economy, and why everything we built in Web3 was secretly a proof of concept for what's coming next. This one hits differently. Alex shares how Nansen went all-in on agentic AI…
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🌐 Building Stablecoin Rails for the World's Forgotten Markets | Arnold Lee (Sphere Labs)
What if the real crypto opportunity isn't in Silicon Valley but in cargo ports, agricultural corridors, and emerging markets that Wall Street ignores? Arnold Lee moved there to find out. Arnold is the co-founder & CEO of Sphere Labs, building stablecoin payment infrastructure on Solana for the...
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🌍 Building the Future of Travel on Solana | Ivan Maltsev (Nomadz)
What We Cover: 🚀 What is Nomadz? — A crypto-friendly travel aggregator on Solana with access to 30+ booking APIs 💸 Why stablecoin payments matter — Save up to 5–6% vs. traditional payment rails like Stripe 📱 Solana Seeker & the DAP Store — Why mobile is the key to onboarding the next wave of...
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Alex Svanevik (Nansen) on AI Agents, Agentic Trading & Running 75 Claude Bots Inside One Company
What happens when a company has more AI agents than human employees? Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik joins The Index to break down exactly that and a whole lot more. Alex shares how Nansen went all-in on agentic AI, deploying 75 OpenClaws across their entire team, building shared skill repositories, and...
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🔐 The Future of Solana's Wallet Stack | Filip Dragoslavić (Solflare)
What does it take to build the most trusted wallet in the Solana ecosystem and keep it that way? In this episode, Nicky sits down with Filip Dragoslavić, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Solflare, to talk about everything from the early days of Solana (think: 20 people in a Discord server with Anatoly...
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🔥 What If You Never Had to Sell Your Crypto to Pay Bills? | Diego García (Pyra)
What if your paycheck went straight into crypto, and you never had to sell to cover your expenses? Diego García, co-founder & CEO of Pyra (pyra.finance), is building exactly that on Solana. This one will make you rethink how you build wealth. In this episode, we cover: 💸 What Pyra actually does…
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🎥Solana, AI Agents & the Future of Payments | Alfonso Gómez (Crossmint)
What happens when AI agents can own wallets, spend money, and interact with the internet autonomously? In this episode of The Index Podcast, host Alex Kehaya sits down with Alfonso Gómez, Founder & CEO of Crossmint, to explore the emerging world of agentic commerce, AI-driven payments, and...
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Solana, AI & the Future of Crypto Startups | Ben Coverston (Harmonic)
What happens when AI meets the Solana ecosystem? In this episode of The Index Podcast, Alex Kehaya sits down with Ben Coverston, founder of Harmonic, to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming how startups are built, analyzed, and funded in the crypto space. Ben shares insights into…
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Irina Chuchkina on Wallet in Telegram: How Crypto Wallets Are Reaching 100M+ Users
How do you bring digital finance to hundreds of millions of users inside one of the world’s largest messaging platforms? In this episode of The Index Podcast, host Alex Kehaya sits down with Irina Chuchkina, Chief Growth Officer at Wallet in Telegram, to explore how a crypto wallet integrated...
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Why Solana Is Winning Governance: Dean Pappas on Realms and the Future of DAOs
Why is Solana becoming the home for real on-chain governance? In this episode of The Index, Dean Pappas (Director of Realms) explains how Solana’s speed, low fees, and native transaction execution make it uniquely suited for scalable, programmable DAOs. We cover: • Why most DAOs fail — and how...
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Solana, AI Agents & the Future of Autonomous Finance | Yash Agarwal (SendAI)
In this episode of The Index Podcast, we sit down with Yash Agarwal, CEO of SendAI, to explore why Solana could become the financial layer for AI agents and how autonomous commerce is closer than we think. From launching the Solana Agent Kit (now one of the most widely used AI agent toolkits in...
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Solana’s Digital Gold Revolution | Usman Saleem on ORO, Yield-Bearing Gold & The Future of DeFi
Is gold about to become the most important asset on Solana? In this episode of The Index Podcast, host Nicky Scannella sits down with Usman Saleem, Founder of ORO, to explore how tokenized gold is evolving from a passive store of value into a productive, yield-bearing on-chain asset. With 100+...
About this show
The Index podcast goes beyond the code to get at the real stories behind some of today's most interesting emerging tech companies, the founders, the strategy, the stuff that actually happens behind the scenes.
Every week, host Alex Kehaya sits down with entrepreneurs, builders, and investors who are shaping where the internet is headed. Alex is CEO of ABK Labs and Corbits, a platform that helps companies put AI agents into production without losing sleep over it. Corbits handles the hard parts: knowing who or what is actually acting, keeping permissions locked down, managing credentials, and keeping a clear record of what happened. Run it on Corbits' cloud or your own, with whatever model you want.
We've got some news: two new co-hosts are joining the show!
First up, Anne Ahola Ward from CircleClick. CNN dubbed her "The Mother of Startups," and it's a title she's earned. Anne is a technical SEO with a reputation for growing startups
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